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How easy is Bengali for Urdu speakers?

Going from Urdu to Bengali (বাংলা) has a composite linguistic distance of 47% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

47% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

50%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

55%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

75%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Arabic → Bengali

Genealogical kinship

70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Urdu speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Urdu:

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Hindi

12% distance
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Punjabi

32% distance
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Gujarati

44% distance
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Nepali

45% distance
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Pashto

51% distance

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